Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little tossing trawlers in the raw North Sea, who can scarcely defend themselves with rifles when Nazi bombers dive at them from the storm scud, Germany's air war on British shipping is a very real and horrid thing. Machine-gun fire sweeps the deck, bombs blow the ship apart, men are hurled mangled and stunned into the combers, the ship goes down leaving survivors to flounder and gasp and freeze until help comes, if it does...
Last week came another blow. Drs. Kirk Bryan and Louis Lamy Ray, Harvard geologists, having made an exhaustive geological study of the Lindenmeier site, published a formidable summary in which they concluded that its age was quite possibly 25,000 years...
Recalled last week were Colonel Apted's biggest exploits: the time he recovered Massachusetts' Sacred Cod, stolen from the State House; the time he produced Handsome Dan, bulldog mascot stolen from Yale; the time he picked up a bomb and foiled an attempt to blow up Harvard's old Yard pump...
...Blue Yale cloud appeared on the Princeton nautical horizon in December; but now they have begun to realize that much power lurks in unexpected places on the Crimson roster. No team has forced Coach Ulen to play all of his cards yet. The Tigers were dealt a cruel blow when academic deficiencies cost them the services of sprinter Jim Green and outstanding Sophomore backstroker Mark Follansbee for the balance of the year; and the close squeeze they experienced against Dartmouth demonstrated that troubled waters would be waiting for them in Cambridge...
...touch with local gossip. Subscribers grouse at the service and complain that the *Of the rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual system is so lackadaisical about repairs that they frequently have to make them themselves. No less archaic is the company's pole policy. When poles blow down or rot away, line men whack off the diseased portion, resink the stub into the ground. Result is that subscribers sometimes have to stoop to get under the wires...